salt and cory cats?????

[crzyboicris]

well here i am asking another dumb question im sure. I was reading through some older posts just gleaning info when i came across a post that said no aquarium salt for cories. i got my first cories when my 36 gallon bowfront was finished cycling 1 completely disappeared 2 died and i have one left. he seems to be doing well and he's a cute little bugger, but i wanted to pick him up some more friends. my question is could the salt be the reason i lost my cories. my water parameters are perfect as im sort of neurotic at testing my water. i change 25-50 percent of my water weekly and the rest of my fish are doing awesome. any suggestions? also i was looking at some sinking food for the little guy i was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for that as well. thank you guys for putting up with my lack of knowledge. i really do appreciate your help !

[BV77]

Corys do not like salt in the water. As for foods, a variety works. they will scavenge sunken flakes etc, but a couple shrimp pellets are a welcome treat. Also Corys like to be in small schools. I'd recommend 3 minimum. Glad to hear you are doing regular partial water changes. That's the single most thing you can do to insure fish health.

[crazyfishlady]

My cory's LOVE live california blackworm, brine shrimp, and bloodworm. They also enjoy Plecocaine(sold by Lohachata) and sinking pallets by Hikari, I'm sure you can find another brand(http://www.petco.com/product/3985/Hi...t=OnSiteSearch). Actually, I rarely feed my fish flakes but, when I do everything else in the tank seems to gobble them up before the cory's get a chance.

[StripesAndFins]

my cories love to eat algae wafers and flakes, both made by tetra. i have never tried plecocaine, but if my cories love the wafers i have now, they should love the pleco caine.

I always thought that a little salt was ok with cories, but i am not sure. i dont know much about it, but good luck!

[lohachata]

yep... the fishlady is right.. Plecocaine is awesome stuff... how do you think it got it's name.... lol.... all fish need a good varied diet.. both proteins and veggies...... while i do use Plecocaine as my staple food... i also feed algae/spirulina wafers to the cats and plecos and spirulina flakes to the other fish like tetras and angels etc.....

[crzyboicris]

well loha where can i order it ?

[lohachata]

scroll down to the "want to sell " section..go in there and clik on to the "you have heard about it " thread.. you will get size and price information there...when you figure out what you want..just PM me and we will work it out....